The Bridge Cafe

The fishfingers were of an edible variety, but i could tell they were not Birds Eye. The Knickerbocker Glory, was not what i was expecting very very basic just standard ice cream with a few sweets thrown on top. Although service was okay, plates were not collected on time. Would go back again, as its only café in Millom. (Apart from Home & Finance).

We popped in here after visiting a friend in the area as it was the most visible café in Millom. I wasn’t too hopeful that we would get a good decent cup of coffee, and that was true, but having said that, the little treat we did get was lovely.
After ordering 2 very frothy lattes served in cups your mum would by from Argo for ‘everyday use’ the owner suggested we sit in the garden, as the café was quite full. Scrambling down the assault course style staircase in heels with a big handbag and hot cup of coffee was not too easy, but we emerged into the most magical little garden I have seen.
OK, so it’s not a landscaping or gardening masterpiece, but it was surrounded with cages of animals and birds: goats, chipmunks, rabbits and parrots to name a few.
As we drank our coffee, a little red breasted robin came down to join us, and we wished we had ordered a sandwich as a girl carrying a parrot to a tree on a tennis racket (it was all a little bit Alice in Wonderland by this point!) told us he is tame enough to feed from your hand.
Not really a place your would travel to for the coffee, but if you are ever in the area, and your kids have been moaning in the back of a hot car, its a great little spot to refresh and stretch your legs.
There are no toilet facilities in the café, you have to go to the public ones a 30second walk across the road which although are very outdated, are clean and free from vandalism, graffiti and gangs, Millom being a pretty little village.